Maximum Armor

What if your skin could resist a speeding bullet? Now a new futuristic tissue designed by artist Jalila Essaïdi, which reinforces human skin cells with spider silk, can stop a whizzing projectile without being pierced. Although its threads may look fragile, a spider-silk weave is four times stronger than Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/ ... nline-news



http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/ ... nline-news

Will just mean that weapons technology gets developed into incendiaries, lasers, or silk-piercing bullets cool though.

I was reading something about this not to long ago, or rather i was reading a news peice about PETA being upset by the harvesting spider silk.

wasnt it also said that if the golden gate bridge was made from spider silk it would be x times stronger than the real thing.

Fascinating stuff.

millions of years of evolution > couple 1000 of human innovation.

Bulletproof skin sounds pretty far fetched, but perhaps bullet proof/resistant lightweight clothing isn't so far away. The problem as usual is a supply of spider silk.

The supply of spider silk is not a problem. Genetically modified goats have been created which produce large quantities of a spider silk. The transplanted gene means the a goat produces milk containing an extra protein, which is extracted and spun into spider silk thread.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16554357

Alfalfa plants have also been modified to produce the spider silk proteins.

I hread about this ages ago, thought it was a joke.

They should keep stuff like this secret, but you know, there could be far more advanced technology out there we don't know about.

Sweet.

Let's where this will take us in 20 years

Now to make test subjects born with spider silk skin and watch X-men become a reality.

i'd imagine something really wasting the technology like bulletproof designer handbags or such or just maybe.. A World... Wide.. Web?